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Add MS 29626
- Record Id:
- 032-002021164
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002021164
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000034.0x00014d
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- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 29626
- Title:
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ORIGINAL letters of, and relating to, Jean Jacques Rousseau, chiefly addressed to Richard Davenport; 1766-1769. The writers are:-
J[ean] J[acques] Rousseau; Wootton, etc., 22 Mar. 1766-17 Mar. 1769, and n.d. Fr. ff. 3-10, 23, 28, 34-42, 45-54, 56, 57, 61, 70, 74-82 ;-to-Vaillant; n.d. Fr. f. 83. -Du Peyron to [David Hume?]; Neufchatel, 4 May, 1766. Fr. f. 11. David Hume; London, 26 June-2 Sept. 1766, 1 July, 1767, ff. 13, 17, 19, 21, 25, 30, 67. -De Lapujade; Paris, 2 July, 1766. Fr. f. 15. [Sir] William Fitzherbert; 7 Aug. 1766, f. 2 6. George Dempster; Scarborough, 21 Aug. 1766, f. 29. T. Becket; London, 5 Sept. [1766], f. 32. L[ouis] Dutens; London, Newcastle, 11 Jan., 30 Mar. [1767], 22 Mar. 1768, ff. 43, 55, 72. Richard Stonhewer; London, 22 Jan. [1767], f. 44. T. Cowper; 6 June, 1767, f. 65. Joshua Rougemont; London, 20 Aug. 1767, f. 68.
Included also are:-Drafts of letters of Richard Davenport to Rousseau and [David Hume?]; 4, 18 May, 1767, and n.d., ff. 59, 63, 84, 86;-and, in Rousseau's autograph, accounts of personal expenses, Mar.-Oct. 1766, and drafts of letters to Messrs. Lucadon and Drake and T. Becket, Aug. 1766, ff. 88 b-94. Paper. Quarto.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau, philosopher: Letters of, and relating to, chiefly addressed to R. Davenport: 1766-1769.
Richard Davenport: Correspondence with J. J. Rousseau, D. Hume, and others: 1766-1769.
includes:
- f. 11 David Hume, historian: Letter to, from M. du Peyron: 1766.: Fr.
- f. 11 Du Peyron: Letter to D. Hume: 1706.: Fr.
- ff. 13, 17, 19, 21, 25, 30, 67 David Hume, historian: Letters to R. Davenport: 1766-1767.
- f. 15 de Lapujade: Letter to R. Davenprt: 1766.: Fr.
- f. 26 Sir William Fitzherbert: Letter to R. Davenport: 1766.
- f. 29 George Dempster, MP: Letter to R. Davenport: 1766.
- f. 32 T- Becket: Letter to R. Davenport: 1766.
- ff. 43, 55, 72 Louis Dutens, Chaplain and Chargé d'Affaires at Turin: Letters to R. Davenport: 1767, 1768.
- f. 44 Richard Stonhewer: Letter to R. Davenport: 1767.
- f. 65 J- Cowper: Letter to R. Davenport: 1767.
- f. 68 Joshua Rougemont: Letter to R. Davenport: 1767.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002021164
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- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002021164
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1766
- End Date:
- 1769
- Date Range:
- 1766-1769
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Names:
- Becket, T-, of Add MS 29626
Cowper, J-, of Add MS 29626
Davenport, Richard, friend and host of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, d 1771
Dempster, George, politician and director of the East India Company, 1732-1818
Dutens, Louis, diplomat, chaplain and writer, 1730-1812
Fitzherbert, William, correspondent of Richard Davenport, fl 1766
Hume, David, philosopher and historian, 1711-1776
Lapujade
Peyron, -, correspondent of David Hume, fl 1706
Rougemont, Joshua
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, philosopher
Stonhewer, Richard, of Add MS 29626